>> brennan: and "on the road" with steve hartman. how one word helped save a boy's life. >> he was going to beat this disease. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> brennan: good evening, scott is off tonight, i'm margaret brennan. while most americans were eating thanksgiving dinner or shopping, a team of technicians was working nearly around the clock to fix the obamacare web site, healthcare.gov the administration had hoped that 1.2 million americans would be signed up for health insurance by now but only about 106,000 have done so according to the latest numbers the government released at the beginning of this month. the white house has pledged that by november 30 the system will be working smoothly for the vast majority of users. it will happen? sharyl attkisson takes a look. >> reporter: just hours before healthcare.gov's fixes are due, nobody can say how well they'll work-- not even john engates, one of a half dozen outside it experts offered a private briefing at the white house this